Almost 1 In 3 US Warplanes Is a Drone - Slashdot
Bytes not bombs. Imagine if we gave a fraction of that bandwidth to kids in schools.
Apollo 11 Lunar Landing Visualization, 1969 (2011) (by Yanni Loukissas)
As someone who knows parts of the SomaFM Mission Control channel by heart, this is blowing my mind. I want the whole thing. I’d love to sit down, and over the course of several sessions, view the entire mission in real time. Do we have that yet? Does NASA ever run full mission simulations, or have people go over full missions? They must.
∞∞The top five:
- Panama
- Helsinki, Finland
- Myanmar
- London
- Oakland, CA
The only explanation for this is probably not a good sign for Oakland. They’ve reached the point where the NYT ceases to pity and has begun exoticizing. To the East Coast, Oakland is practically a banana republic now.
(via Design Spotlight: De Tomaso Mangusta Legacy Concept | Gear Patrol)
I’m not a car guy. But this. Wonderful old-new blend.
∞Several friends or co-people asked what radio shows/podcasts I listened to in 2011. These are all iTunes links where you can subscribe or download.
Radiolab and This American Life are constants.
Benjamin Walker’s Too Much Information
Nick van der Kolk’s Love & Radio
Johnathan Goldstein’s Wiretap (I’m just over halfway through six seasons!)
Roman Mars’ 99% Invisible
PRI’s To The Best of Our Knowledge
Sam Greenspan’s Whisper Cities
The Long Now Foundation’s SALT
There are a few others I’m still testing out. The above are all wonderful. Listen away.
If you want a great way to find individual stories and short pieces from a broad spectrum of public radio houses, definitely check out Audiofiles.
World Of Fourcraft
Urban Tick takes a look at location-based gaming through Foursquare, where teams compete for territory through check-ins. For example:
World of Fourcraft is a New York based game that uses a NYC as a battle ground for borough teams to battle the grounds and fight over ownerships for territories. It is based on Foursquare check-ins and with each check-in territory can be gained.
The players sign up via a Foursquare and choose the borough they want to play for. After that each check-in counts towards the boroughs count of check-ins in a particular area. The area belongs to the team with the most check-ins.Urban Tick looks at other similar games in their latest post here
Oh how many many times I spoke of these emerging games in 2011.
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∞Fun theory. People experience and the city
The Pop-up City blog is in the midst of some cool holiday reading. Worth spending some time and reading a few postings(via Trend 10: Urbanism Made To Like — The Pop-Up City)
werner herzog excerpt
thx adria
Beautiful. And I couldn’t help but think, this is the embodiment for all the gaps in evolutionary stories. In species dispersal. In humans, for ourselves and our artifacts. Why do we see species in places we wouldn’t expect, within a particular time frame? It’s the same with humans. Sometimes, organisms just go far. We don’t know why, or we pretend to know. But sometimes they just travel. Why do I want to walk through Death Valley with nothing, every time I go there? Why DID I walk from Skyline to the Pacific, through the coastal mountains. I can’t tell you. I just did. I get this penguin.
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